<i><p style="margin:0px">Improve your credit score, for real, with the #1 best-selling guide you can trust!</i> Today, a good credit score is essential for getting credit, getting a job, even getting car insurance or a cellphone. Now, best selling journalist Liz Pulliam Weston has thoroughly updated her top-selling guide to credit scores, with crucial new information for protecting (or rebuilding) yours.</p><p style="margin:0px">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin:0px">Weston thoroughly covers brand-new laws and rules surrounding credit scoring — including some surprising good news and some frightening new risks. Don’t settle for an out-of-date guide to credit scoring, when<b><i>Your Credit Score, Fifth Edition</b> </i>offers brand-new coverage of all this, and more:</p><ul><li><div style="margin:0px">Recent consumer-friendly reforms in lending, credit score calculation, and credit bureau behavior — and how to take advantage of them</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">How you can finally get your credit disputes reviewed by an actual human being</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Why recent medical debts shouldn’t impact your score anymore</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">How to get a legitimately free FICO score without getting ripped off</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">How lenders have recently loosened their criteria, making it easier to get loans even if your credit isn’t perfect</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Important new options for student loan borrowers — including brand-new ways to dramatically limit your payments</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">How tax refund fraud is soaring — and the one little-known way to avoid becoming a victim</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">The disappearance of &quot;manual underwriting&quot;: why it’s now virtually impossible to get a mortgage without credit scores</div></li><li><div style="margin:0px">Weston updates her guidance on raising your FICO score... fighting lower limits or higher rates... maintaining the right mix of cards and balances... bouncing back from bad credit... choosing credit &quot;solutions&quot; that help, not hurt... explodes both new and old myths about credit scoring… and much more. </div></li></ul><b><i><p style="margin:0px">Your Credit Score</b> </i>is for every consumer who is concerned about improving or protecting their credit — and it’s so up-to-date and useful, thousands of financial professionals use it, too!</p>